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- Agency and Transformation
- Agency and Transformation
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter 1 Motives, Mediation and Motion
- Chapter 2 Toward a Power-Sensitive Conceptualization of Transformative Agency
- Chapter 3 The Tasks of Reality and Reality As the Task
- Chapter 4 A Relational View of a Future-Orientated Pedagogy
- Chapter 5 From Future Orientation to Future-Making
- Chapter 6 Excluded Lives
- Chapter 7 Children’s and Youth’s Civic Projects and Responsible Agency
- Chapter 8 Decolonizing Agency
- Chapter 9 Unpacking Social Articulation of Agency
- Chapter 10 The Emancipatory Nature of Transformative Agency
- Chapter 11 Choice in Childbirth, Agency and Collective Action
- Chapter 12 Transformative Agency by Double Stimulation in an Ecological Agroforestry Association from Brazil
- Chapter 13 Transformative Agency and the Cultivation of Innovations in Frontline Homelessness Work
- Chapter 14 Children’s Agency during the COVID-19 Pandemic in China
- Chapter 15 Agency As the Direction and Reach of Actions
- Index
- References
Chapter 2 - Toward a Power-Sensitive Conceptualization of Transformative Agency
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 23 November 2023
- Agency and Transformation
- Agency and Transformation
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter 1 Motives, Mediation and Motion
- Chapter 2 Toward a Power-Sensitive Conceptualization of Transformative Agency
- Chapter 3 The Tasks of Reality and Reality As the Task
- Chapter 4 A Relational View of a Future-Orientated Pedagogy
- Chapter 5 From Future Orientation to Future-Making
- Chapter 6 Excluded Lives
- Chapter 7 Children’s and Youth’s Civic Projects and Responsible Agency
- Chapter 8 Decolonizing Agency
- Chapter 9 Unpacking Social Articulation of Agency
- Chapter 10 The Emancipatory Nature of Transformative Agency
- Chapter 11 Choice in Childbirth, Agency and Collective Action
- Chapter 12 Transformative Agency by Double Stimulation in an Ecological Agroforestry Association from Brazil
- Chapter 13 Transformative Agency and the Cultivation of Innovations in Frontline Homelessness Work
- Chapter 14 Children’s Agency during the COVID-19 Pandemic in China
- Chapter 15 Agency As the Direction and Reach of Actions
- Index
- References
Summary
A contribution to discussions of agency and change from the perspective of cultural-historical activity theory consists of findings on transformative agency by double stimulation (TADS). Aspects of these discussions revolve around the hidden, unrecognized and often suppressed power of hybrid coalitions coming together contribute to making a more just and sustainable world. This chapter presents a theoretical argument supported by empirical examples showing that TADS is intrinsically a power-sensitive conceptualization of agency. The chapter engages in dialogue with and expands on the proposition of power in the sociology of real utopias, arguing that, despite the strong dialectical and progressive stance it adopts, this perspective is still predominantly based on accounts and critiques of how power is played out. A chronological account of two subsequent studies on eradicating homelessness helps construct an expanded proposition in which TADS can serve a key generating and mediating function of power.
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- Agency and TransformationMotives, Mediation, and Motion, pp. 35 - 55Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023
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